U. S. Marine Hospital (Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky)

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In 1837, Congress authorized the construction of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Louisville “for the benefit of sick seamen, boatmen, and other navigators on the western rivers and lakes.”

The hospital’s site, midway between the Louisville and Portland wharves, was selected for the “beneficial effect of a view of the water, and the impressions and associations it would naturally awake in the minds of men whose occupation were so intimately connected with it.”
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Hospital_of_Louisville
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Coordinates:   38°16'15"N   85°47'2"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago